In honor of Alchemised coming out next month, and DHR Month about to start, here is one of our favorite and simultaneously most heart wrenching scenes from Manacled 🖤
DRAMIONE FIC RECS + WHY YOU SHOULD READ THEM — 100k+ words edition
hogwarts: a home by coralcollective — reimagined horcrux hunt. draco is so down bad for hermione and the smut is crazyyy. theo/hermione friendship. pansy is the breakout character and you'll love her. there's nsfw art and inappropriate use of the malfoy signet ring. please check the tags! (it says incomplete on ao3, but it's only missing epilogues so don't be afraid of starting it)
word count: 372,978
chapters: 67/70
the commoner's guide to bedding a royal by olivieblake — god, this fic!!!! it's a modern royal au and the ensemble of characters make this whole world feel so alive. it's inspired by will/kate and harry/meghan and it's sooo cute. theo and daphne were the breakout characters and i love them dearly. if you're looking for a lighthearted romcom-esque, occasionally angsty (because duh!) fic, this is it!!! i probably read this in two days which is insane considering the word count, but that should just tell you how lovely this whole fic was. there's a second part to this if you're itching for more afterwards (and it's just as good!)
word count: 503,570
chapters: 45/45
draco malfoy and the mortifying ordeal of being in love by isthisselfcare — honestly if you haven't read this yet..... this is god tier. a CLASSIC. this should be taught in the schools. hermione's a magical researcher / healer and draco's one of the best aurors out there. he's assigned to protect hermione because she's in the midst of a big discovery. hermione's not happy about it and draco isn't either. slow burn!! idiots in LOVE!! forced proximity!!!!! EMBEDDED ART!!! honestly this is the fic that made me want to learn how to bind which is so serious and if you haven't read this yet you need to.
word count: 199,548
chapters: 36/36
the disappearances of draco malfoy by speechwriter — this is my new canon. it's a deathly hallows rewrite where draco accepts dumbledore's offer to fake his death and go into hiding with the order. enemies to friends to lovers. i honestly can't even remember what happened in canon because this is IT for me.
word count: 289,780
chapters: 33/33
this world or any other series by olivieblake — includes clean (book one) and marked (book two). anything by olivieblake should be a must-read, i swear to god. this one starts as a year 6 slow burn. draco and hermione are assigned partners for potions and it all snowballs from there. olivie writes so beautifully and her characterizations for hermione / draco are so good. slight warning for marked: this destroyed me and i pretend it doesn't exist, but it's still a must-read.
word count: 118,892 & 178,268
chapters: 31/31 & 39/39
rights and wrongs series by lovesbitca8 — you want fluffy dramione? read the first two parts of the rights and wrongs series. you want dark and heavy dramione? read the auction, an alternate universe of the fluffy dramione, where voldemort wins and they all get auctioned off to death eaters. please check the tags for the voldy wins au! all three were chef's kiss and coming from someone who isn't a fan of dark aus, reading the first two helped me get through the auction because you know where draco's coming from / what's in his head. you can just read the auction without reading the first two parts unless you like catching parallels and having more depth / context (which i very much love).
obsessed with the narrative that shane is just inventing kink out of his own beautiful mind like obviously he knows that ilya is the one in control but he has no clue that he’s been in a dom/sub dynamic right from the start
so one day he’s talking to rose and she jokes about their sex lives becoming boring after being together for so long and shane’s like no no he does this thing where it feels like he shuts my brain off and all my limbs go numb and he completely overtakes my body and mind and afterwards he has to bring me back down to earth and she’s like ???he puts you in subspace on the reg?? and shane is like i have no idea what that means
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
girl you erected a mysterious black monolith that contained all the knowledge your culture had ever collected were you hoping he'd develop rudimentary tool use
SOOOOOOOOOOO this is a huge problem of mine and most of these fics are going to be the super long popular ones cuz i listen to their audio fics while at work!
My very first fic that started ALL OF THIS was of course,
Manacled by SenLinYu. Audiofic.
And then here are some of the others I've sank my teeth into and eaten so fast it would make your head spin, they are LONG:
Forever is Composed of Nows by SenLinYu. Audiofic. (not dramione but it is a continutation of manacled)
The Auction by LovesBitca8. Audiofic.
The Right Thing To Do by LovesBitca8. Audiofic.
All the Wrong Things by LovesBitca8. Audiofic.
*Breath Mints / Battle Scars by Onyx_And_Elm. Audiofic.
Draco Malfoy and the Morifying Ordeal of Being In Love by isthisselfcare. Audiofic.
Bring Him to His Knees by Musyc. Audiofic.
Remain Nameless by HeyJude19. Audiofic.
Ceremonials by HeyJude19. Audiofic.
*breath mints battle scars is no longer up on ao3, you have to outsource it in options like signatures or pdfs
My personal current favourite:
Choice and Chance by ChaosAndCrumpets. Audiofic.
Short and Sweet and Spicy:
You Bite My Lip, Spike My Blood by succulent_nurturer.
Third Time's the Charm by monsterleamehome.
Temptation by sweetestsorrows (katschako).
Restricted Rendezvous by Musyc.
Naughty or Nice, Granger? by Dramioneinkdrinker
It Was A Sunny Day by Zeebee3
Work It Out by Zeebee3
A Good Landing by Zeebee3
Fics I'm in the middle of:
Isolation by bexchan. Audiofic.
Secrets and Masks by Emerald_Slytherin. Audiofic.
Not to mention the probably 35-50 on my TBR list. But I hope this helps!!!
tylenol realizing they're about to get a huge settlement from the US government and get some halfway-decent PR when the last thing we all knew about them was the murders
for the unaware: long story short in the 1980's some wacko poisoned several tylenol packages with cyanide and six people actually died from it. tylenol pulled their product from the shelves, and then came back with the first Tamper-Proof Seal, those annoying little foil covers that exist to reassure you that nothing was added. This is why we have those.
to be clear: as far as I have ever been told, tylenol did the right thing here. J&J immediately recalled the tainted lot, and when more tainted lots were found, they recalled ALL extra-strength tylenol in chicago. after another incident happened in florida, they then recalled ALL TYLENOL NATIONWIDE issued within the suspected date. they also advertised this recall with a recommendation to not consume the product if you still have it, and offered to replace your bottle with a case of tablets instead (different from the capsules that were getting poisoned). they also lost a ton of money on this, too, because their insurance claim was denied due to not having Recall Insurance specifically.
this is also why you don't really see powder-based capsules anymore, with most drug companies moving to caplets instead - a capsule-shaped tablet, which is harder to poison. and again, this is why we have anti-tamper seals on medicine bottles now.
TL;DR - the Tylenol Murders weren't even tylenol's fault and the company made a very expensive choice to mass recall because it was the right thing to do.
it's so fascinating how we joke about barricade day like it’s a time loop. are any other fandom holidays treated as such? are other holidays in general celebrated this way? every year by our own fanaticism it resets and we go down the same path and make the same jokes. "surely this year the people will rise." but that's the point isn't it ? we keep on going, just as the stage show is performed again and again. revolution does not end. injustice persists, the fight for change persists, and therefore so does our need for this story. "So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use" and such...
are you fucking kidding me the red line beads are a FAR more compelling texture than the blue line. “oh but the red line is booring.” the appeal is in how it interacts with and highlights the other lines you philistine. without the red line there’s no cohesion at all. read a book.
Literally hop off. Red doesn’t even use gravity as an element in the main route. Orange is one of the only three lines (with green and yellow) to actually use gravity to add complexity to the route, and is honestly an underrated pick. Have fun playing “push left” simulator with red. Idiot.